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Not too far back in 2019 I was cruising around a particular section of the East Side of South Central LA. My riding partner was showing me around his hood & talking to me about his experiences, his life, history and how times have changed but they& #39;ve also stayed as much the same.
In the evening time he recounted to me a story that happened in his projects back in the days. A story about predator vs prey.
A fellow homeboy who was known as not too much of a tough guy came to the hood showing his new pretty girlfriend around. He drove up to where the fellas were kickin it and parked. One of the bigger homies of the hood known for being rough and a savage walked up to the car.
He goes around the car and posts at the window of the passenger seat where the girl sitting. He tell the lil homie "What& #39;s up nigga". Lil homie look to em and say "Nothing just showing my girl around the hood you know kickin it". Big homie nod his head and say "alright".
Big homie start fuckin with the lil homie on some "You got yourself a real pretty girl there, what she doing with yo lil ass" type shit, but the lil homie not with the shits like that/dont have the respect in the hood to fight the big one.
He telling his big homie tho "Aye nigga relax on me, chill. We just tryna kick it we not trying to get into some shit. Leave the girl alone" as the girl slapping the big homie hand away. All of a sudden big homie turn into savage mode. And deadlocks on the lil homie.
"What the fuck you think you doing". Lil homie says "what?". Big homie comes at em "I said what the fuck you think you doing coming at me over a BITCH lil nigga. You gon tell me NO in MY PROJECTS? Look around - this MY HOOD!" Big homie got his hand squeezing the girl thigh
Lil homie trying his hardest to wave off the big homie and calm em down. The other homies tho are seeing this and decide enough is enough. They tell the big homie at the car "AYE NIGGA LEAVE THAT GIRL ALONE AND COME BACK OVER HERE. LEAVE EM ALONE". Big homie pauses for a second.
He looks at his homies then back at the girl and the lil homie thinking about it. He then tells the lil homie "Nigga dont you ever bring a bitch to my hood again unless she giving me some too. Now get this bitch up out my hood before I rape her!". Lil homie instantly dips out.
This happened back in the 80s when my riding partner was a youngin. We were talking about how everybody complains about how fucked up the youngins are nowadays, but it aint like they had much to go off of. Things have been fucked up since the beginning of this gangbanging shit
We keep driving around looking for hit ups, talking about other shit etc. when we see we gotta put in some gas so we stop somewhere on Central to get some. My riding partner gets off to go do his thing and Im sitting there chillin watchin a fat white methhead chick ask for rides
I look around and I see a couple kids standing in front the store just chillin, neither couldve have been more than 10 yrs old, with some chick that looked bout 20s or 30s.
All of a sudden the chicks starts going off, yelling loud as fuck at this dude about "taking her spot". The kids off to the side. After a couple minutes the arguing and yelling subsides. I then see my riding partner exit the store and start talking to the chick
Now that sounds weird but my partner was a man who& #39;s very talkative and inquisitive by nature. He talks to random people and asks em shit all the time so this wasnt out of the ordinary for him. Anyways so he comes back after talking for a bit with her and I ask em what happened
Breaks it all down "oh she just yellin bout her spot being taken in the alleyway, I asked her if she got kids she said yeah so i told her she should prolly get going to them". I nodded, thinking those kids standing next to her were hers as i watch em walk away in the alley
As we pull out, i notice the chick is completely gone nowhere in sight not even in the alleyway, but I see the kids alone standing next to a row of homeless tens in the fucked up alleyway holding Tupperware. The older of the two looks at me and I get this very strange feeling
I sometimes think about those kids. How many of our youth are just wandering around in alleyways, ghettos, hoods just lost. Nowhere to be found by anybody and everybody. Abandoned by everybody. Shit is tragic. I learned a lot that day about my city, about myself, and about life.
Best picture I took that day was on the street where my riding partner had grown up. Ironically I took it to showcase how ugly SC truly looks as appose to its portrayal in tv/movies but it came out looking beautiful. I like it better this way honestly. The Concrete Jungle. #35mm
What you can& #39;t see here btw is broken glass everywhere, fucked up alleyway gates, a torn up ass couch on the sidewalk for no reason, walls with horrible buffing jobs, and the palm trees themselves look random and all malnourished/torn the fuck up.
